US defends India's ballistic missile launch

by DLi

Mon, Apr 23, 2012 11:46PM

Less than 2 weeks after North Korea launched--and failed at--an attempted satellite with a 3-stage rocket, India successfully put up its Agni V ballistic missile that was capable of delivering a 1-ton nuclear warhead 3,100 miles from its home base. The US State Dept. immediately proclaimed that India's missile launch "posed no threat" to anyone in the region. In contrast, the USA empire hysterically labeled the N. Korea Uhna 3 "missile"--a much more primitive projectile than its Indian eounterpart--as a grave security threat to Japan and So. Korea, and actually deployed advanced space technology warships in an attempted shootdown of the DPRKorea's rocket.

The utter hypocrisy of the USA ruling regime could not have been more exposed. First off, North Korea had actually invited foreign journalists to ts launch center before the lift-off. Secondly, India's missile launch came in spite of the fact that India had not signed onto the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty provisions. Yet, instead of protesting India's blatant military show of force, Washington not refused to apply any sanction on New Delhi; rather, the Obama regime is pursuing closer military ties with India and is busy sellling hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of weaponry to New Delhi. How's that for using double standards(ostensably to punish N. Korea, but actually the jab is aimed at Beijing)?

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